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'Guardians of the Galaxy' irreverent, not enough
At the height of their powers, our overlords at Marvel have deigned to prove, like an emperor tolerating a court jester, that they do, in fact, have a sense of humor.
The Marvel universe, of course, isn't entirely lacking comedy, as we've seen in "Iron Man" and "The Avengers." But on the whole, the Marvel kingdom is built on an unshakable foundation of self-seriousness. The comic book studio seems to fear that if the solemnity of its fiction isn't diligently guarded, people might start questioning whether all these men in spandex merit quite so much attention.
Yet "Guardians of the Galaxy," a 3-D space opera about a ragtag crew of mercenaries, is Marvel's most irreverent film yet, and has a welcome, slightly self-mocking tone that dares to suggest intergalactic battles over orbs might actually be a tad silly.
This is all very much to the good, but the problem with "Guardians of the Galaxy," directed by James Gunn, is the weakness of the comedy it wears so proudly. It takes more than a soundtrack full of '70s tunes, a talking raccoon and a few gags about "Footloose" to be funny. It's "zany" in quotes.
As if demonstrating its tonal distance from Marvel's other planetary bodies, "Guardians of the Galaxy" takes place at the far reaches of space, where we find Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) skipping along on an abandoned planet. He removes his mask, presses play on a Walkman and does something normally sacrosanct in Marvel-land: He dances. Blaring is the irresistible 1974 hit "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone, the first of many such old radio hits.
The music, as we learned in the prologue, is from a mixtape given to Quill as a child by his cancer-stricken mother shortly before her death. Distraught, he rushes outside only to - in quite the double-whammy - be beamed up by a spaceship.
Twenty-six years later, Quill is a Han Solo-like scavenger who stumbles across a silver orb also sought by some powerfully evil forces: Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace, obscured by makeup but still a severe presence) and his boss, Thanos (Josh Brolin). The warm spirit of "Guardians" owes much to Pratt, the guileless, formerly doughy "Parks and Recreation" star; his casting in inspired.
The resulting scrum for the orb introduces several more seekers: the green-skinned Gamora (Zoe Saldana), the hulking Drax (Dave Bautista) and a CGI odd couple: a bitterly sardonic raccoon named Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and his sidekick, a talking tree called Groot (Vin Diesel) who looks like he sprouted from "The Lord of the Rings." All reluctantly unite like a sarcastic "Dirty Dozen."
The Guardians, who were first introduced in a 1969 comic, are far from Marvel's star players. But their not-primetime-player status is freeing to Gunn, whose 2010 comedy "Super" starred Rainn Wilson as a wannabe crime fighter. He wrote the film with Nicole Perlman, clearly aspiring for a rollicking adventure in the mold of "Indiana Jones" or "Star Wars," which the movie's poster evoked.
But the film is terribly overstuffed and many of the jokes get drowned out by the special effects. Presumably awaiting meatier work sequels to come, fine actors like Glenn Close, John C. Reilly and Benicio Del Toro come and go with just a few lines. (How can a movie seeking humor in outer space not utilize Reilly?)
The pervasive movie references detract from the stab at freshness, and "Guardians" depends all too much on the whimsy of '70s anthems for an original beat. Others, eager for any playfulness from Marvel, will surely be more excited by "Guardians of the Galaxy." To them I quote Solo: "Laugh it up, Fuzzball."
Film facts
Cast: Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper
MPAA rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and some language.
Critical rating: ★★☆☆
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WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer prices rose in June at a slightly slower pace than in May with two-thirds of the June advance driven by the largest jump in gasoline prices in a year.
Prices rose 0.3 percent in June following a 0.4 percent rise in May, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The May increase had been the biggest one-month gain in more than a year.
Energy prices were up 1.6 percent, nearly double the May gain, reflecting a sharp 3.3 percent rise in gasoline costs. But food costs edged up just 0.1 percent, the smallest gain since January.
Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy, were up just 0.1 percent. Over the past 12 months, core prices are up 1.9 percent, an indication of moderate inflation.
Overall prices have risen 2.1 percent in the past 12 months. While the 12-month price gains are up from extremely low readings earlier this year, the figures are close to the 2 percent annual price gains that the Federal Reserve seeks to achieve.
The 3.3 percent jump in gasoline costs was not expected to be repeated in July given that pump prices have been falling in recent weeks. The AAA says the nationwide average for a gallon of gas stood at $3.57 on Monday, down from $3.68 a month ago and an indication that energy prices may be easing slightly.
Food costs have been rising sharply this year, reflecting a variety of factors from cold weather hurting winter crops in such states as Florida and a severe drought in California.
Airplane ticket prices surged by 5.8 percent in May, the largest amount in 15 years, but ticket prices moderated to a smaller 0.4 percent rise in June.
Economists believe energy price gains will slow in coming months although tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine could derail those hopes if they trigger a surge in global oil prices.
Food costs have been driven higher this year by a variety of factors including a harsh winter and a drought in California but economists believe the June moderation could be the beginning of slower food increases.
The Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates exceptionally low as long as inflation does not show signs of moving beyond its targeted rate. The forecast of many analysts is that the Fed will keep a key short-term interest rate at a record low near zero over the next year with the first rate increase not occurring until the summer of 2015.
But analysts stress that this outlook depends heavily on prices remaining in check. Should there be signs that inflation is starting to accelerate, then the central bank could begin raising interest rates sooner, possibly in the spring of next year.
The Fed holds its two-day meeting next week, starting Tuesday. In delivering the central bank's twice-a-year report to Congress last week, Fed Chair Janet Yellen sent a strong signal that the central bank still believed the economy needed help despite recent solid job gains which have pushed the unemployment rate down to 6.1 percent, the lowest level in nearly six years.
Yellen acknowledged the improvement in the labor market but also noted that unemployment remains above the 5.2 percent to 5.5 percent range that Fed officials view as optimal. She said that while inflation had risen slightly, the increase is not occurring at a pace that the central bank views as a threat.
The Fed seeks to achieve maximum employment with inflation rising at a modest pace of around 2 percent a year.
Low inflation, the result of a deep recession which has kept the lid on labor costs, has allowed the Fed to keep interest rates at exceptionally low levels. The benchmark interest rate has been near zero since December 2008.
The harsh winter pushed the overall economy into reverse in the first three months of the year with growth falling at an annual rate of 2.9 percent. But analysts say a solid rebound in the spring pushed growth up to between 2.5 percent and 3 percent and they see improvements in the labor market contributing to stronger consumer spending and even stronger growth in the second half of this year.

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Hi, my name is Melissa Mortenson and I'm very excited to share the tutorial for this fun diaper bag! It is made from 1 charm pack and 1 layer cake… that's it! No other yardage required … just some interfacing and fusible fleece! I made this for a friend, Angela, thus the name.
I hope you enjoy it! I loved making it. Stop by my blog the polkadot chair and say hi!
1 Charm Pack- I used Santorini by Lila Tueller
1 pkg fabric lamination sheets- I used Heat n' Bond Iron on Vinyl Matte. It comes in a package and is sold at the fabric store next to the Heat n' Bond products.
1/4″ wide elastic
This bag uses 1 layer cake and 1 charm pack. You will use almost the entire package of both. So to begin it is VERY important that you lay out all of your pieces. I think it's easiest to open the package and put "similar" prints and colors together. It helps with sorting.
First lay out the pieces for the front and back of the bag.
These are charm pieces. (5″ pre-cut squares)
You will need 8 uncut charms for the front and 8 for the back
You will then need 4 additional charms for the top border.
Stitch together bag front and back pieces.
*note : I have an embroidery machine. So I decided to add a monogram to the front. If you do this, do it after the pieces are stitched but before you complete any other steps.
Next the layer cake pieces. Hold on this one's a biggie!
You will need:
2 matching/coordinating layer cake (LC) pieces for the side panels
2 matching/coordinating LC pieces for side panel lining
1 LC piece for side panel & side lining border
2 matching/coordinating LC for the outer pockets
2 matching/coordinating for the LC outer pockets lining
2 matching/coordinating LC pieces for the bottom of the bag (outside bottom)
2 matching/coordinating LC pieces for the inside bottom of bag
4 LC pieces for front and back lining
1 or 2 LC piece for front and back lining border (up to you if you want the same pattern on all the border- I used 2 different pieces)
12 LC pieces for inside pockets (I just used a variety of pieces for this, none of them were the same)
2 matching LC pieces for bag divider side 1
2 matching LC pieces for bag divider side 2
Okay now you are going to cut some of your Layer Cake Pieces. SAVE ALL of your scraps. We will use some of them later. (note: in this photo the pieces look to be different lengths, they are not, they are both 10″ long, they just are laid out and not sewn yet that is why they look different)
The side panel of the bags are 8" wide.
Cut the following to 8" wide (do NOT cut the other edge, leave it at 10")
2 side panels
2 side linings
1 side panel border
1 side panel border lining
8" x 2.5″- you need 4
Cut 2 side pockets to:
Cut 2 side pocket linings to
Now for bag lining pieces:
Cut front and back lining border- to do this, Cut 1 layer cake piece into
4 pieces each 10"x 2.5" (you can use 2 different patterns if you like, that is what I did)
Now you are ready to start sewing!
Start with the lining:
Sew front lining piece (uncut layer piece) to lining border piece (10×2.5) Press seam up.
Sew 2nd front lining piece to lining border piece. Press seam down.
Matching seams sew 2 lining pieces together. (you will end up with a piece that is approx. 19.5 wide x 12.25 tall)
Repeat for back lining pieces & borders.
Due to seam allowance differences you need to trim the bag front piece (made out of charms earlier) and the lining piece to the same size.
Match centers and lay bag front over bag front lining. Trim excess off bag lining so it is the same size as bag front.
Repeat for back lining and bag back
Sew side lining pieces (8×10) to side lining borders (2.5×8)
Cut a piece of fusible fleece the same size as the pieces and iron on to the following pieces:
Bag Front
Bag Back
2 side panels
2 pockets (8×8) do NOT put fusible fleece on the pocket lining pieces.
Bottom of Bag
Make the outer pockets:
Baste a 8" piece of piping to the top pocket
Pin pocket lining piece to pocket right sides together
With fusible fleece facing up…stitch pocket to lining on the SAME stitching line you used to baste the piping on.
Place pocket on top of side panel. Match edges and baste pocket to side panel
Sew bag front to side panel
Sew same side panel to bag back
Sew 2nd side panel to bag back
Sew bag front to 2nd side panel
(photo shows bag front, 1 side panel and bag back)
You will get something that looks like this:
Next sew bag bottom on. Sew 2 long sides first stopping ¼" from the edges. Then sew short sides.
Next inside pockets.
Repeat the following steps for inside pockets for front & back of bag
Sew 3 pocket pieces together. (uncut layer pieces)
Press seams
Sew 3 pocket lining pieces together
(photo shows pocket lining side)
Sew inside pocket pieces to pocket lining pieces at top (right sides together)
Press seam open. Turn right side out.
Measuring down ½" from the top of the pocket sew a casing for elastic.
(photo shows pocket side)
Lay pocket onto bag lining
Match side seams centers and bottom.
Form a pleat in the bottom of each pocket so that the top and bottom are the same width
Baste bottom to hold pleats in place. Baste sides.
Making sure to back stitch several times, sew down each panel to divide pocket into 3 separate compartments.
Sew lining front to side lining
Sew lining bottom into lining.
Make handles:
Sew 2 pieces together at short seam. Do this so you have 4 pieces 2"x 19.75
Press seams open
Apply heavy weight fusible interfacing to 2 of the handle pieces.
Sew 1 handle piece (with out interfacing) to one with interfacing. Sewing along one long side. Press seam open. Press raw edge of handle piece under ¼" on both pieces.
Fold in half (wrong sides together) and top stitch down both of the long sides of the handles.
Assemble the bag
Cut a piece of fusible peltex to fit inside of the bottom of the of the bag.
Pin & sew handle to front and back of bag. Sew over handle several times since this is a "stressed" area of the bag. Lining them up with the seam of the 5" squares
Pin & sew ribbon (cut it long, you can trim it later) to front and back centers of bag
On BOTH bag lining piece and bag pieces press under top seam ¼"
Insert peltex into bottom of bag
Put bag lining into bag. Match top seams and pin well. If for some reason the seams do not match up… adjust the side seams so that they do.
Very SLOWLY and carefully… top stitch bag to bag lining. Being careful not to catch the handles or the ribbon in the seams.
Put your iron INSIDE the sewn bag. Iron the inside bottom of the bag to fuse the peltex to bag and bag lining.
Measure the width of your bag. Mine was 17.5. Cut a piece of peltex 17.5×9.5.
Take your 4 matching LC pieces. Sew 2 pieces together forming divider front and and 2 pieces to form back.
Sew divider front piece to divider back (right sides together) piece along 3 sides. (leaving short side open). Press well.
Slide peltex into divider.
Fold raw edge of divider in. Press. Top stitch around all 4 sides of divider.
Place divider inside finished bag. By hand, whip stitch divider into place at the top and bottom corners.
Optional Changing pad: You have enough pieces left over so why not make one? 🙂
Cut 1 layer cake piece into 4 pieces, each 2.5 x 10
Sew to edges of 2 LC pieces.
Sew 2 pieces together and Press .
Laminate using iron on lamination sheets according to package directions.
Place laminated/pieced fabric on top of hand towel. Cut hand towel to size of laminated fabric.
Attach 2 loops of ¼" elastic to top of changing pad. Stitch down and back stitch… (these pop off easily if not stitched down properly)
Press again (you will need the pressing piece from the lamination to be able to iron it- otherwise you will melt the laminate).
Whip stitch opening closed.


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Computers are ubiquitous in modern life. They offer us portals to information and entertainment, and they handle the complex tasks needed to keep many facets of modern society running smoothly. Chances are, there is not a single person in Ars' readership whose day-to-day existence doesn't rely on computers in one manner or another. Despite this, very few people know how computers actually do the things that they do. How does one go from what is really nothing more than a collection—a very large collection, mind you—of switches to the things we see powering the modern world?
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
—Carl Sagan
At their base, even though they run much of the world, computers are one thing: stupid. A computer knows nothing. Its brain is little more than a large collection of on/off switches. The fact that you can play video games, browse the Internet, and pump gas at a gas station is thanks to the programs the computers have been given by a human. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the basic concepts of computer programming: how a person teaches a computer something and how the ideas encapsulated in the program go from something we can understand to something a computer understands.
First, it needs to be said that programming is not some black art, something arcane that only the learned few may ever attempt. It is a method of communication whereby a person tells a computer what, exactly, they want it to do. Computers are picky and stupid, but they will indeed do exactly as they are told. Therefore, each program you write should be like an elegant recipe that anyone—including a computer—can follow. Ideally, each step in a program should be clearly described and, if it is complicated, broken down into smaller steps to remove all doubt about what is to happen.
Programming is about problem solving and thinking in a methodical manner. Like many other disciplines, it requires someone to be able to look at a complex problem and start whittling away at it, solving easier pieces first until the whole thing is tackled. It is this whittling away, this identification of smaller challenges and developing solutions to them, that requires the real talent—and creativity. If you go out to solve a problem, or create a program no one has ever done before, all the book knowledge in the world won't give you the answer. A creative mind might.
Think of programming like cooking: you learn the basic rules and then you can let your creativity run wild. Few will go on to become the rock stars of the kitchen, but that's OK. The barrier to entry is not high, and once you are in, you are then limited only by your desire and creativity.
Thinking in base 10
Like many things in the modern world, to understand computer programming and how computers function in general, you have to start with numbers—integers, to be precise. The nineteenth century mathematician Leopold Kronceker is credited with the phrase "God made the integers; all else is the work of man." If one is intending to understand computer programming, they must start their journey by looking at simple integers.
In the modern world, we count using what is known as base 10; that is, there are ten distinct digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), if you want to go higher than those, we prepend a digit representing the number of tens we have. For instance, the number 13 really tells us we have one of the tens, and three of the ones. This structure can go on and on. If we write 586, we are really saying that we have five of the one hundreds, eight of the tens, and six of the ones.
Before looking at how we can translate that to the on and off switches of computers, let's take a step back and look at our description of a number in a bit more detail. Let's use 53,897 as our example. Following what we did above, we are really saying that this is five of the ten thousands, three of the one thousands, eight of the hundreds, nine of the tens, and seven of the ones. If we write this out in a more mathematical notation we would arrive at 5*10,000 + 3*1,000 + 8*100 + 9*10 + 7*1. This would evaluate to the number 53,897.
Looking at this summation a little more closely, one might realize the number on the right-hand side of the multiplication (the multiplicand) are all powers of 10; 10,000 is 104, 1,000 is 103, 100 is 102, 10 is 101, and 1 is 100. Re-writing our expression would give 5*104+3*103+8*102+9*101+7*100. In the more general sense, any base-10 number AB,CDE (where, A, B, C, D, and E are some arbitrary digit from 0 through 9) is really saying that we have the following summation: A*104+B*103+C*102+D*101+E*100.
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Taking the generalization one step further, we can note that the multiplicand is always 10 to some power when we are working in base 10. That is not a coincidence. If we want to work in any other base number system, we would write any number AB,CDE (where again, A, B, C, D, and E are valid digits in the base we are working with) as the follow summation: A*base4+B*base3+C*base2+D*base1+E*base0.
If we one day encounter an alien civilization that uses base five for everything and they threaten us by stating that they have 342 battle cruisers en route to Earth, we'd know that we would count that as 3*52+4*51+2*50, or 97 ships headed to destroy us. (We'll just send out the winner of the USS Defiant vs. the Millennium Falcon to take them on, no problem).
Now, there is no reason that we must count in base 10, it is simply convenient for us. Given our ten fingers and ten toes it is only natural that we use a base-10 number system. Past societies have used others, Babylonians, for instance, used a base-60 number system and they had the same symbol represent 1, 60, and 3,600 (a similar problem existed for 61, 3,601, and 3,660).
What does this all have to do with computers? Well, as I mentioned above, computers are nothing more than a big collection of switches. A monstrous set of on/off items—some with only two possible states. If we find that using ten possible states to be logical due to our biology, then it would reason that using base-two numbers would make the most sense for a computer that can only know on or off.
That means the binary number system. The binary number system is base two, and the only numbers available for counting are zero (0) and one (1). Even though you only have 0s and 1s, any number can be represented, as we just showed above. This gives us a way to tell a computer—a big collection of switches—all about numbers. Counting to 10 (base 10) in binary would go as follows: 0 (0), 1 (1), 10 (2), 11 (3), 100 (4), 101 (5), 110 (6), 111 (7), 1000 (8), 1001 (9), 1010 (10).
More generally any binary number can be computed similarly to how we wrote the general sum for base-10 numbers. The number ABCDE in binary would represent the number A*24+B*23+C*22+D*21+E*20. As an example, the number 10011010 in binary would be 1*27+0*26+0*25+1*24+1*23+0*22+1*21+0*20, or 154 in base-10 terminology. (As a nerdy aside, such counting is the origin of the joke "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who do not.")
Before moving on, a quick aside about terminology. In computer parlance, a single 0 or 1 (a single on/off value) is termed a "bit." When you group eight bits together, you get a byte (four bits is called a nybble, but you won't see that around much anymore). Therefore, if you have a 1GB drive, that means you have 1024*1024*1024 bytes of information, or 8*1024*1024*1024 individual on/off storage spots to which information can be written. When someone in the computer world says something is 16-bit or 32-bit or 64-bit, they are talking about how many bits are available, by default, for representing an integer (or memory address location) on that computer.
Early days
With a method to represent numbers, it became possible to use these collections of switches to do things with those numbers. Even with all the innovations in CPU design and technology that the past 50+ years have brought, at the heart of things, there are only a handful of things that a CPU can do with those numbers: simple arithmetic and logical operations. Just as importantly, it can also move bits/bytes around in memory.
Each of those simple operations could be given a numeric code, and a sequence of these operations could then be issued to a computer for it to execute—this sequence is termed a program. In the beginning, developing a program quite literally involved a programmer sitting in front of a large board of switches, setting some to up (on/1) and some to down (off/0) one at a time, thereby entering the computation sequence into the computer directly. Once all the operations in the sequence have been entered, the program could then be executed.
After entering programs by literally flipping switches became tedious (this didn't take too long), hardware manufacturers and software developers came up with the concept of assembly languages. While the hardware really only knows combinations of ones and zeros, the machine language, these are difficult to work with. Assembly languages gave a simple name to each possible operation that a given piece of hardware could carry out.
Assembly languages are considered low-level programming languages, in that you are working directly with operations that the hardware can do rather than anything more complex or abstract built on top of these commands. For instance, a simple CPU could understand assembly for adding (ADD) two numbers, subtracting (SUB) two numbers, and moving memory between locations (MOV). The development of assembly allowed programmers to create software that was somewhat removed from the absolute binary nature of the machine and quite a bit easier to understand by reading.
Even though this got programmers one step removed from the numeric codes that actually run the computer, the fact that each different piece of hardware from each manufacturer could have its own, non-overlapping assembly language meant is was still difficult to create complex software that carried out large-scale tasks in a general manner.
It wasn't until 1956 that John Backus came down from the mountain with a host of punch cards inscribed with "The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704" (PDF). FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) was the first ever high-level language, a language in which scientists and engineers could interact with a computer without needing to know the down and dirty specifics of the commands the machine actually supported.


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Central parts of the state had the most with seven twisters, including one that hit Washington. It had 190 mph winds and was on the ground for 46 miles.
Four tornadoes swept through rural areas to the south and southwest of Chicago city. The closest was an EF-2 that dissipated about 35 miles from downtown Chicago near the village of Frankfort.
Three more tornadoes struck the St. Louis area and south-central Illinois, and one hit far southern Illinois, including the community of Brookport.
Weather Service meteorologist Ed Shimon says teams are out again today and could confirm a 16th tornado in Jasper County, where numerous people reported seeing a funnel cloud.


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Spreading the word about heart health
Is butter good for your heart? Recent headlines, including one by Mark Bittman of the New York Times, "Butter is Back" has created confusion about what to eat for a healthy heart. Bittman infuriated public health advocates when he told readers to add pork, fatty meats and butter back to their diet based on his interpretation of a controversial research analysis that concluded saturated fats, found in butter and other animal fats, do not affect heart disease risk when compared to unsaturated fats.
But experts in the field refute this and are calling Bittman's advice a disservice to the public.
The study was a meta-analysis, a review of many research trials, which only looked at a single type of nutrient, fatty acids, not the diet as a whole. This type of analysis is not "cause and effect" and should only draw broad conclusions. Flaws were found in the report and the authors were asked to retract their conclusion.
Newer research finds when people replace saturated fat with refined carbohydrates, as our nation did for over a quarter century, this elevates heart disease risk similarly to the traditional high saturated fat eating pattern of the 1950s, documented over decades in The Framingham Heart Study.
In other words a high carbohydrate diet, with predominantly unsaturated fats (found in vegetable oils), when compared to a moderate carbohydrate diet with more saturated fat will have equal heart disease risk – but neither is good for the heart. Both result in millions of people on heart disease medications and billions of dollars spent on cardiac surgery. The results of this analysis should not de-vilify saturated fat but provides more evidence the diet as a whole determines risk.
Current research supports educating the public to adopt a healthy diet, overall, rather than a message to focus solely on fat to improve heart disease outcomes. A large study in Spain found eating in a wholesome, Mediterranean pattern – fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts and olive oil and limited processed foods (refined carbohydrates), red meat and dairy products – resulted in a 30 percent reduction in cardiovascular events when compared to a low fat control group. The olive oil and nuts, alone, in this dietary pattern contributed a significant amount of saturated fat, over 10 grams, yet participants showed good outcomes.
In France, The Lyon Heart Study, also found impressive results from a healthy food pattern – over 50 percent reduction in recurrent heart disease and death in participants who had a previous event. In this study researchers tweaked the traditional Mediterranean diet a bit by replacing butter with a vegetable oil-based margarine.
Good advice for Americans right now is to replace processed foods and refined carbohydrates, like sugary sodas, juices, sweetened coffee drinks, crackers, nutrition bars, fruit roll ups, cookies, white bread and the like, with natural wholesome foods, like fresh fruits, vegetables, brown rice, sweet potatoes, nuts, seeds and others. All fats contain different types of saturated fatty acids. Current research suggests the saturated fat and other food components in olive oil, nuts, seeds, fish and poultry is better for the heart than what's found in butter, pork and beef.
Joan Endyke is a registered dietitian with a master's degree in food and nutrition. Send your questions to her at www.wickedgoodhealth.com. This column is not intended to diagnose or treat disease. Check with your doctor before changing your diet.


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This article lists bugs which you and I have encountered in macOS Mojave 10.14.5 itself, rather than issues in specific third-party applications and other software. Note: This article refers to 10.14.5 and is no longer being maintained. To see the list of bugs in 10.14.6, which is being maintained, please go to this article.
Safari – webloc files with malformed data forks
Although easy to reproduce, this bug is both serious and weird, and affects 10.14.4 and 10.14.5.
In Safari, press Option-Command-B to open the Bookmarks. If you already have a folder within them, drag that to the Desktop. If you don't have a folder, create a new folder and drag it within the existing bookmarks, then Option-drag some bookmarks into it. When you've got a few there, drag that folder to the Desktop.
The .webloc files within that folder now can't be copied or moved, nor can you open their data forks in an app such as BBEdit: they simply do nothing, or cause the app to hang. In the case of the Finder, you may be able to cancel the operation if you're quick. The solution is to quit Safari, which then releases those weblocs for use.
Full details are shown here.
Many thanks to Dimitris for discovering this seriously weird bug.
System Information – Legacy Software misleading
The information given about 'legacy software' in System Information remains incomplete and misleading. Fuller details are here. Use 32-bitCheck (from Downloads above) instead.
macOS seems to be building this list as and when macOS warns the user that each specific 32-bit app needs to be replaced. Those warnings now occur more frequently, but are still far from complete or comprehensive. Until their list is complete, users will find 32-bitCheck and ArchiChect far more reliable for informing them which apps and other software are 32-bit.
Disk Utility – can't resize APFS disk images
This bug appears to have been present since the release of APFS in High Sierra, and persists in 10.14.5. Using the Resize… command in the Images menu on a disk image in APFS format invariably fails immediately, with an error message.
The only way to resize an APFS disk image is using
hdiutil at the command line. Further details including an account of the workaround are given here.
(Thanks to Dimitris for reporting this, and to klanomath for the workaround.)
LaunchServices – apps may not undergo proper signature checking when they should
In Mojave, at least, LaunchServices initiates a formal signature check using Apple Mobile File Integrity (amfid) when asked to launch any app from a path with which it isn't already familiar. If the signature is found to be defective, amfid escalates this and the app is crashed with that signature error.
Although uncommon, circumstances can arise in which LaunchServices incorrectly calls for this check using lsd rather than amfid; the result is that errors are ignored, and the app is allowed to launch.
If the conditions required to reproduce this can be discovered, this would constitute a vulnerability, which could be exploited by malware. Full details and log excerpts are here.
Sandbox – quarantine flags written to documents promiscuously
For several years, sandboxed apps have written quarantine flags to most if not all documents they open, even when they don't save them. These put all those documents in quarantine, even when a document has never been near the Internet and only created and edited locally. This even happens when a 'real' quarantine flag has already been attached to a document; in overwriting that, the sandbox strips its link to the quarantine database, preventing further information on that quarantine event from being retrieved.
This adversely interacts with a protective mechanism which prevents easy opening of documents which have been set to be opened using an app other than the default for that type, using the OpenWith extended attribute. The end result makes it unnecessarily difficult to open such documents.
There is no way for the user to inspect or change the quarantine flag, and no way to permanently change the quarantine status of a document. The next time that it is opened by a sandboxed app, a fresh flag will be written putting that document back into quarantine.
Full details are given here.
QuickLook – can't handle malformed documents
When asked to provide a thumbnail or preview of some malformed documents, QuickLook hangs displaying the busy 'spinner' in place of the thumbnail or content of the preview.
To demonstrate this, take a copy of a text file, and replace its extension with '.jpg'. Select that file, and its thumbnail will be shown as the busy spinner. Press the Space bar and its preview will also be the same busy spinner. QuickLook appears unable to return an error to IconServices, or the preview window. This appears to affect mainly malformed image files, including JPEG, TIFF and PNG. It doesn't appear to affect QuickTime movies, though, suggesting that the bug is in the qlgenerator for still image formats, which is part of macOS.
Although this doesn't result in high CPU load, and doesn't hang the Finder or anything else, it is a fundamental flaw which should never have appeared in release software.
Keyboard pane – App Shortcuts almost unusable
Open the Keyboard pane, select the Shortcuts tab, then the App Shortcuts item at the left. If you only have the single default shortcut, add some others. After adding two or more, they will be displayed with the ellipsis character … instead of their menu title, and attempts to edit that title are frustrated because the edit area is the size of the ellipsis, not the title. There is no apparent way in which this can be corrected by the user.
There are odd inconsistencies here too: the single default item Show Help menu has a checkbox at the left, but items added by the user don't. However, as that first item cannot be edited or removed, that checkbox is the only way to disable it.
This tab is almost unusable as a result, making it impossible to set or maintain app shortcuts. macOS 10.14.4 altered this, in showing one additional letter each side of the ellipsis, but still doesn't handle this properly in 10.14.5.
(Thanks to John for pointing this out to me.)
Bluetooth keyboard – sporadic repetition of letters
When typing normally, even with the delay to key repeat adjusted carefully, there are occasional repetitions of letters entered via an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. This is an old problem, going back to Sierra at least, and affects multiple models (including iMac and iMac Pro). Although adjusting the threshold can reduce its frequency, the occasional letter duplication (e.g. 'paath' for 'path') still breaks through. Disappointingly, this persists in 10.14.5.
Dictionary – text incorrectly displayed in Dark Mode
Although most, if not all, dictionaries accessible to the Dictionary app seem to have worked in Dark Mode in 10.14.4, in 10.14.5 some have stopped displaying their text in colours which are readable. One example is the third-party Terminology dictionary shown below; another is a German thesaurus. It's unclear why this has broken again, as third-party dictionaries tweaked to work properly in Dark Mode appear unaffected.
(Thanks to Stephan for reporting this.)
Calculator – defective printing of Paper Tape
There are two obvious bugs: when running in Dark Mode, if you try printing the Paper Tape in Calculator, it remains fixed in Dark Mode, printing a rectangle of dark grey with white text. The other is that it isn't possible to change the size of the Paper Tape; it remains stubbornly fixed even if you change the paper size to A3 in landscape mode.
The only workaround for the first bug is to switch to Light Mode before printing; there is no workaround to the second, other than copying and pasting the Paper Tape output to another app for printing.
It's perhaps worth noting here (and in the bug below) that Apple has started rejecting third-party apps from the App Store when they don't print correctly in Dark Mode. Maybe it should put macOS in order before behaving like this to developers?
Activity Monitor – almost blank pages when printing in Dark Mode
Printing from Activity Monitor when in Dark Mode results in almost completely blank pages, which contain just a few icons.
The only workaround is to switch to Light Mode to print.
Preview – selection highlighting dysfunctional
Correct app behaviour when the user changes the selection Highlight colour in the General pane, either directly or by changing Accent colour, is to change existing selections when the app window is brought to the front or otherwise updated. Preview doesn't do this: select some text in a PDF document, for example, then change the Highlight colour in the General pane. The selected text will remain in its existing colour highlight.
In addition, the Graphite highlight colour doesn't work at all in Dark Mode, and may not work reliably in Light Mode either.
Apps which are built on AppKit do behave correctly, though: to see how this should work, try it with, for example, my DelightEd.
(Thanks to Dimitris for explaining this to me so patiently.)
Messages – some new messages contain old text
Some users are seeing text fragments from old messages in new (empty) messages, which have to be cut before they can enter a new message. This doesn't appear to affect all users, though.
(Thanks to Hunter for reporting this, and for others who confirmed it.)
App Store – search returns weird hits
When you enter some search terms into the App Store app, completely unrelated apps appear in the results. In some cases, these are additional to genuine hits, in others they just appear weird and unrelated. For example, searching on the word
consommé (a type of soup) consistently returns an app which has nothing whatsoever to do with the word, nor does it appear in the info provided about the app.
clover returns three genuine hits, and three spurious apps which are completely unrelated. This looks like the store's metadata are corrupted with random terms.
If anything, this has grown worse in macOS 10.14.4 and 10.14.5, with even more spurious hits.
TextEdit – colours displayed differently with Dark Background
Colours used to display text are changed when Dark Background is enabled. If you save or copy Rich Text in that display mode, the colours saved or copied are very likely to differ from those shown. To avoid this, don't use Dark Background when you're using colour.
This and other problems are discussed in detail here.
Multiple displays – external displays may not activate at login
Some users are experiencing an old problem from High Sierra, in which external displays aren't activating properly at login, as if they weren't connected. One workaround is to put the internal display to sleep, then wake it, which should activate all connected displays properly.
(Thanks to mcgroarty for reporting this.)
Dark Mode – QuickLook and other bugs
If you use an editor such as my DelightEd which is designed to produce RTF which 'works' in Dark as well as Light Mode, then QuickLook thumbnails and previews switch contained text to white in Dark Mode, but retain a white background. This renders the thumbnail/preview useless in Dark Mode.
A similar problem with Dark Mode exists when you use Control-Command-D to show the definition of a selected word: the popover window is semi-transparent, which makes text in custom dictionaries visible only when viewed over a window with a white background. If the underlying window is dark grey, then that text is almost invisible.
These are described in more detail here. There don't appear to be any workarounds for these, other than switching back to Light Mode.
Thanks to Artyom for drawing my attention to the second of these.
Safari – errors opening local Home page, and others
If you set Safari 12.1.1 to open a local file as its Home page, this may cause an error when Safari first opens, and that error may in turn result in another error reporting that the error page can't be found. Others also report Safari's inability to search until a remote page has been loaded, and other potentially related issues. These are detailed here (see the comments there in particular).
Once Safari has started up and connected to a remote page, these problems usually vanish, so can be safely ignored. They also appear to occur most commonly when the Develop menu is enabled; turning that off may make them disappear, but you then lose the additional features of that menu. This bug was present in 12.0 and persists in 12.1 and 12.1.1.
(Thanks to Manoli for pointing this out.)
System Preferences – General pane Accent colour confusion
Switch between non-grey and grey Accent colours repeatedly, and the colours shown in the pane quickly become confused, and show the wrong colours relative to those selected. These may also be out of sync with the colours actually set. To restore normal colours, select only non-grey colours. Full details are here.
This seems to be more deep-seated, in that the Finder can lose track of Accent and Highlight settings, and display a third colour which isn't either of those selected. This is detailed and shown here.
(Thanks to Ryan for pointing this out.)
Appearance – grey/gray accent turns 'traffic lights' grey too
In the General pane, set the Accent colour to grey. Whether in Light or Dark mode, the 'traffic lights' at the top left of every window then show just three grey lights instead. Now which end was red?!
The only workaround is not to use the grey accent.
It has been argued (see comments) that this is a feature and not a bug, as it recalls the earlier grey appearance. Mojave doesn't have grey appearance: it has Light Mode and Dark Mode as its two appearances. Within those, the colour options are 'accents' which change the colour of a small number of controls. Grey accent is the only accent which removes all colour from the 'traffic lights' and is therefore inconsistent at best. I'd call it misguided at least.
(Thanks to simweb for reporting this previously.)
Finder – copy progress icons frozen
Sometimes, the circular progress icon displayed in column and list views during file copying becomes frozen. It then shows early progress at the start of copying, and remains fixed despite those files being successfully and completely copied. Presence of the icon misinforms the user that the copy hasn't been completed when it has. In previous versions of Mojave, these were not uncommon, and could persist indefinitely until the Finder was restarted. They appear more transient and less frequently in 10.14.5, but are confusing when they do appear.
Finder – incorrect column width
This can occur when using Finder windows which are set to column view. When switching folder in the view, the rightmost column being displayed has excessive width, filling the Finder window, its divider being placed incorrectly at the right edge of that window.
This long-standing but intermittent bug dates back to Mavericks if not earlier, and I have whinged about it here and here. It was also present in every version of El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra. The only workaround is to select a different folder, then to select the correct folder again.
Bugs believed to have been fixed from 10.14.4
macOS 10.14.5 fixes a bug in Terminal, in which Command-D to split a pane made an unusable mess of the window. Splitting a window now works. (Thanks to Hans-Peter for reporting this in 10.14.4.)
It is also reported to fix a bug mounting encrypted USB hard drives, and possibly SSDs too. (Thanks to mcgroarty for reporting this.)
(List closed with the release of 10.14.6, 24 July 2019.)


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NASHVILLE — Once intent on scaling back her career to focus on family, country singer Trisha Yearwood now finds herself with two — platinum-selling musician with a new album on the way and emerging kitchen mogul.
"I kind of feel like Rocky in the first movie," Yearwood said.
An apt description: Yearwood announced Tuesday she's releasing a new album titled "PrizeFighter," the title taken from a new track she found inspiring as she contemplated relaunching her music career at 49. It coincides with the looming comeback tour with her husband, Garth Brooks. She's also launching cookware and cutlery lines, begins a new season of "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" next week and has her third cookbook out next spring.
"I kind of feel like the odds are not in my favor, so the song is really motivating in that way because it's just kind of like you've got to fight, you've got to fight for what you want," Yearwood said.
She and Brooks begin their tour Sept. 4 in Chicago, where they'll play 11 concerts — "We call it the freak show right now" — and she'll be taping new episodes of her show's fifth season between sets while on the road.
As the tour approached, she spent time in the studio tweaking her new album, which includes a hits package and six new songs. The music, she said, has been her priority amid all the other projects.
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Brooks and Yearwood chose to mostly shutter their careers after they married in 2005 and moved to Oklahoma, where they raised Brooks' three daughters. Since then, Yearwood has sold 12 million albums but released very little music. The Grammy Award winner's last album came out in 2007 and plans since were set aside when her mother was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.
She said she found things too quiet without music, though, and hopes the new music will empower young women, just as several other recent songs by female artists have done.
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LACMA's staff got things started earlier this week with our own stuff rescued from the recycling bin (check out the video below), but there's much more "work" to be done.
All you need to do to be a part of the show is bring your orange laundry soap jugs, green strawberry baskets, and other colorful plastic goods to the fences near our Sixth Street entrance where you'll find zipper ties. Adhere your items to the fence in whatever way you like and voila—you've just helped create a bright, playful, and collaborative piece of art for L.A. (and perhaps even taken care of some of your recycling at the same time)!
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rosebud is a sled.
So goes the ending of the 1941 Orson Welles classic "Citizen Kane," spoilers be damned!
Revealing secret endings and plot twists has brought on wrath since the dawn of cinema, straight through VCRS to today's DVR-fueled delays that led to much nail-biting over The Ending That Shall Not Be Spoiled on "Breaking Bad."
But exactly what is the magic formula for spoiler grace? When do calls of SPOILER ALERT (insert index fingers in the ears here) expire so we can, maybe, not feel so constipated when discussing our favorite fare in real time?
Does the 13-episode Netflix dump of "Orange is the New Black" in July equal two months of polite spoiler-free behavior? Are bets off when a show concludes, or does that depend on how many seasons late adopters would have to slowly, slowly slog through — say Dexter's eight to Breaking Bad's five?
Or is it up to the unspoiled viewer to avoid social media or catch up? Get it done, people!
"I think asking people not to spoil for some reasonable amount of time is fine, although anyone who actually takes it seriously, i.e. gets mad or upset in the event someone does, is an idiot," said technology analyst Melanie Turek in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
"But that 'reasonable' amount of time is, in my mind, about 48 hours after a live broadcast," she explained. "And once a series is off the air and the hype has died down, asking people not to spoil is just silly."
Others think keeping some things quiet — or at least warning our Facebook friends about potential spoilers — is what 21st-century etiquette might advise. At least that's what the ragers who decry spoilers on social media hope for.
Marketer Kim Puckett in Indianapolis thinks "we're all social media-level entertainment reviewers now" so should respect our written-word audiences on newsfeeds like Twitter or in status updates on Facebook that aren't easy to escape.
"Unfortunately, specific status updates on key plot points might be banned forever," she said.
But in other contexts, Puckett said, "as soon as the show ends, office and social talk should be allowed about the show. How can we enjoy shows at a social level if we're always worried that someone is still on Season 1 of 'The Killing' or halfway through 'Sons of Anarchy?'"
Justice is on the side of those who want to blab on Twitter or Facebook, according to Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University and author of the book "New New, Media."
The idea that "people have a right to be free of spoilers is absurd, and it's an absurd misuse of the term 'right,'" he said.
"You have a right to communicate," Levinson assured. "I don't think anyone is entitled to that kind of grace. If you feel like writing something you're entitled to write it as long it's not slanderous or libelous or breaking the law in some way. Why anyone would get into a rage about entertainment is beyond me."
He harkened back to buzz over "The Crying Game" and Dil's reveal as a transgender woman, along with "The Sixth Sense" and the Bruce Willis character being dead. And there was grumbling over spoiling the purgatory at the end of "Lost," at a time when social media was well on its way to engulfing us, he said.
"If the ending is really atrocious, like 'Lost,' then you're probably doing people a favor by letting them know," Levinson said.
Etiquette expert Lizzie Post of the Emily Post Institute sees no value in people "posting a million times, 'Don't spoil anything for me, don't spoil anything for me.'" Walk away from Facebook, shut down Twitter if you have to, she said.
"If you're not living in the current season you have no claim. It's fine if you have a friend who's really into it and you want to say, 'Don't spoil it for me.' But you can't ask the world around you to completely bend."
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Judith Martin, who writes the Miss Manners columns and books, also believes the burden falls mostly on the person holding out for the surprise.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — You couldn't miss Hollywood talent agent Sid Levin's office in the old days: It wasn't much bigger than a closet and it was sometimes filled with burglars, bank robbers and gang members, all trying to break into the movies.
These days you'll find everyone from Gulf War veterans to a 15-time world arm-wrestling champion there, and Levin didn't bring them in for protection. They're looking to be movie stars, too.
In a town where seemingly everyone wants to be a star, but few look like James Franco or Scarlett Johansson, Levin is the talent agent who represents the people who look like the rest of us. Some play tough guys because they once were. Or hard-core military types because they were that.
"I am kind of the strange guy here in Hollywood," says Levin from behind the desk of his office, which is actually just down the road in adjacent Beverly Hills. "I rep a lot of talented people, but people who are kind of the underdog. But that's OK. I'm the underdog, too."
One of his breakout underdogs is the arm-wrestling champion and former juvenile hall guard Dot-Marie Jones. She's been nominated for three consecutive Emmys since landing the role of Coach Beiste on "Glee." Although she missed out on a nomination at this month's awards show, he says, he's confident she'll get one eventually — because she's that good.
On his desk, meanwhile, is an old-fashioned Rolodex with a list of more than 100 names, many of people you've likely never heard of but realize you sort of recognize from somewhere.
There's Abdoulaye N'gom, for example. The Senegalese-born actor who came to LA 35 years ago with the unlikely dream of becoming a movie star, although he spoke little English and what he did came out in a thick accent reflecting the years he'd spent in Senegal and France.
"But Sid said, 'There's just something about you. I know you're going to work,'" recalled the actor who after years of small parts in films like "George of the Jungle" recently played the kindly hotel manager in the Drew Barrymore-Adam Sandler comedy "Blended."
Likewise, when Levin saw the square-jawed, no-nonsense-looking Coast Guard Petty Officer Mike Dalager, he says, he knew just what roles to send him after. Dalager's been a cop, a soldier and a member of the crew of The Enterprise in "Star Trek: Into Darkness." Not that he always plays the good guy. He was also a Taliban militiaman in "Eagle Eye."
"It's definitely a what-you-look-like industry," laughs Dalager, adding Levin seems to know that better than anyone.
Levin, 56, himself looks like he could have walked out of a movie about an old-time agent in the mold of "Broadway Danny Rose." He's short, paunchy and, on this day, dressed in slacks and a pull-over blue shirt with a gold medallion hanging around his neck.
Thirty years ago, the former stand-up comic and singing-telegram salesman put up a shingle in a tiny office at the fabled but then-faded intersection of Hollywood and Vine. "People told me I had to move because nobody would go there after dark," he recalled of Hollywood's rougher days.
Kids from the even rougher streets of South Los Angeles would, however, especially after Levin got seven of them roles in director John Singleton's breakthrough movie "Boyz n the Hood" in 1991. They had been sent to him by a Compton acting coach named Anthony Bean who was trying to get them away from street gangs.
"Don't ask me why and how I found Sid. I don't even recall," laughs Bean, who has since returned to his native New Orleans to run an acting school for inner-city youth. But in a business that can be cut-throat, Bean said he just got a feeling the fast-talking agent wouldn't rip off naive street kids.
The next break came when a tough looking Latino actor from one of LA's roughest barrios came through the door. When Danny Trejo started to work regularly, Levin recalls, he volunteered at prisoner workshops and began sending his students to him.
"Ex-cons that were bank robbers and what have you started showing up, and that was kind of dicey," he recalls, chuckling.
Still, he might have kept representing ex-cons, gang members and their associates if tragedy hadn't struck. Dedrik Gobert, one of the South LA kids he'd gotten into "Boys n the Hood," seemed headed for stardom. He was making money and spending it restoring old cars.
Unfortunately, he raced one day against a gang member, they argued afterward and he was shot to death.
"I still think about him a lot," Levin says softly. "It was just so senseless."
As most of the kids from LA's mean streets drifted away from acting, and some like Trejo who became big stars moved on to other, more prominent representation, Levin began to focus more on military and law enforcement people.
He figured they have as much right to dream of being movie and TV stars as anybody else. "Talented is talented," he says.


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Primary suspect testifies convert from Islam was not involved, but police file charge anyway.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, October 1 (CDN) — Police in Nilphamari district have charged Christian day laborer Abul Hossen with cattle theft four days after the primary suspect confessed and testified that Hossen had no part in it, according to a defense attorney and a local official present in the courtroom.
Police submitted the charge sheet against the convert from Islam on Sept. 12, even though Sirajul Islam had confessed to the crime and testified on Sept. 8 that Hossen was not involved and that he did not know him. Hossen, arrested on Aug. 21 in Dubachari village some 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Dhaka, was released on bail the same day that Islam testified to his innocence.
Hossen's lawyer, Alimuddin Bosunia, told Compass that in Islam's confession before a judge in Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Nilphamari district, the thief denied any involvement of Hossen in the cattle theft.
"I do not know him," Islam testified, according to Bosunia. "That Abul Hossen who was with me during the theft is short in height, but this Abul Hossen is taller. This Abul Hossen was not involved in the cattle theft."
Shamcharan Roy, chairman of the local government body known as a union council, corroborated Bosunia's account of the confession.
"The thief present in the dock of the court confessed that he did not know the arrested Abul Hossen, and that Hossen was not involved in the cattle theft," said Roy, a Hindu. "It remained somewhat of a mystery why police submitted the charge sheet against Abul Hossen. The arrest of Hossen on charges of cattle theft appalled me. It was a completely freakish incident."
Roy, who said Hossen was released on bail of 5,000 taka (US$70) under his supervision, said that police initially investigated "based on the statement of the thief, but the thief's second confessional statement in the court was the other way 'round."
The union council chairman and Hossen's lawyer did not elaborate further on Islam's confession, but Hossen told Compass that Islam also testified that the local union council secretary of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League party and his associates initially incited the thief to accuse him. Christian villagers have said that influential Muslims had Hossen accused in order to discredit his ministry.
Hossen, 41, told Compass that police inquired about his conversion to Christianity in 2007 when they arrested him.
"After reaching the police station, police asked me bluntly whether I became Christian or not and when did it happen," Hossen said. "I told them the month and the year of my conversion."
Officers also asked him whether his wife and father were Christians, and he replied that his wife was a Christian and his father was a Muslim, he said.
"Then they asked, 'Why did you become Christian? Did Christians offer you any money to become a Christian?'" Hossen said.
Local Police Chief Nurul Islam told Compass that authorities submitted the charge sheet in the court against the Christian convert on Sept. 12 based on Sirajul Islam's initial statement.
"In the charge sheet, Abul Hossen is accused as a cattle thief who was an accomplice of another thief," said Nurul Islam. "The main thief, Sirajul Islam, confessed to us that Abul Hossen was a thief and he was with them during the theft. We investigated the statement the thief told us against Abul Hossen, and we found him guilty."
Immediately after Hossen's arrest, more than 100 villagers weathered a heavy downpour to go to police and request that they free him. Police had arrested Hossen four days after the Aug. 17 theft.
He was baptized on June, 12, 2007 along with 40 other people who were raised as Muslims. Of the 41 people baptized, only seven remained Christian, with villagers and Muslim missionaries called Tabligh Jamat forcing the remaining 34 people to return to Islam within six months, sources said.
Muslims make up nearly 90 percent of Bangladesh's population, with Hinduism the second largest religious affiliation at 9.2 percent of 153.5 million people. Buddhists and Christians make up less than 1 percent of the population.
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I could count on one hand the number of times I've had fast-food anything in the past 10 years…but "fast-food", that is to say, foods that can be prepared quickly, do have their place in our family's meal repertoire.
With Guppy and Monsieur F. home every day for lunch, I try to keep things interesting, nutritious and affordable. And quick. While there are lots of healthy and delicious things that I can whip up in just minutes, not all of them pass the Guppy-test, but this one does and it's ready to eat in less than 30 minutes.
I'm not going to complain here : our daughter was the easiest kid in the world to feed for 4 years. She'd eat just about anything from spicy lentil curries to tapanade. She'd have her moments, but generally was very easy to please. However, since turning 5 she's gone into a more curious food-phase where she likes everything, sometimes. One day she'll love artichokes, the next will gag on them. I let it go, because as my dear Mamafish would say, "if she's hungry, she'll eat.", but it is still nice to see her clean her plate. Broccoli, peas, spinach and mushrooms are still her top 5 foods, so I try to use them as often as possible, and will sub one of the above for the peas in this dish…but I didn't want to lose the cute name and call it "Mushy-peasy Pasta" or "Easy-ccoli Pasta". But maybe I should?
Easy-Peasy Pasta
For the child who doesn't like rice or peanut butter & jelly sammies.
500 g whole-wheat pasta (mini-macaronis are our favourite)
Pot full of boiling, salted water
1/2 cup diced onion
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
3 tbsp non-dairy butter
3 tbsp nutritional yeast
3 tbsp soy cream, soy yogurt or non-dairy milk (in order of preference)
2 to 3 handfuls frozen peas, rinsed under hot water
1 or 2 diced meatless-dogs or sausage (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
1) Prepare the pasta according to package instructions.
2) While the pasta is boiling, sautée the onion in the olive oil until translucent, about 5 minutes or so.
3) Add the balsamic vinegar and set heat to low, stirring to keep the onion from sticking, then add the butter, soy cream and peas and stir until combined.
4) Drain the pasta and return to the pot, add the balsamic onion mixture and the nutritional yeast and stir until combined. Add optional soydogs (if you're in North America you can use Yves and I'm jealous!) and salt and pepper.
5) Youppie! Eat a happy meal with your kidlet!
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Rare tortoise runs away from home
Sherman, an African spur-thighed tortoise, is safe and back at home after being missing for several days.
Owner Andrew Shellabarger said he was able to recover his missing tortoise shortly after receiving a tip from a good Samaritan early Monday morning.
"He's going to be fine. He's a little dehydrated, he's exhausted, but I'm just glad I got him back," he said.
Sherman was reported missing last week from Shellabarger's back yard near Ha Ha Tonka State Park.
The 85-pound, 3-foot-plus long tortoise was going to be used for breeding. After years of inbreeding in zoos, new genes of Sherman's species are hard to come by, Shellabarger said, and his tortoise has never been used for breeding, so he would have been able to supplement the gene pool.
Now that Sherman is back at home, Shellabarger said those plans are back on.
"It would be great to get a female tortoise here, maybe we could start our own breeding program right here in Missouri. It would be something brand-new," he said.
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Boots That Get You Charged Up
Inventor finds a way to harness all that energy you burn on switchbacks and long trails.
When huffing and puffing up the side of a mountain with your pack on, you exert nearly enough energy to illuminate a light bulb. What if you could harness all that power and use it later?
English inventor Trevor Baylis wondered the same thing, and the result is a pair of boots that stores human-generated energy. His prototype "electric shoes" work on the same principle as the piezoelectric lighters found on some camp stoves. When compressed by a footstep, the boots' piezoelectric material harnesses energy. The energy is then transported via wires to a battery in a pouch at the heel. The battery can be used later to accomplish other tasks such as running a headlamp. Once the boots are refined, it's possible that hikers wouldn't need to carry extra batteries into the wild.
The current prototype can fuel only a cell-phone battery—a 100-mile trek across Africa's Nimid Desert stored enough energy for Baylis to make a 10-minute call to England. Future models may be able to run laptop computers, Baylis contends. He is at work on the problem of extending the boots' harnessing power, and hopes to have a stronger prototype soon.
The inventor acknowledged there are also improvements to be made to the boots' clunky appearance. He plans to refine the product to improve water resistance and streamline the battery pouch. "We don't want people to look like jackasses wearing these," he quipped.


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SEATTLE (AP) — Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers' behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found.
The results were modest and faded over time, but may hold promise for finding ways to help young children avoid aggressive, violent behavior, the study authors and other doctors said.
"It's not just about turning off the television. It's about changing the channel. What children watch is as important as how much they watch," said lead author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and researcher at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
The research was to be published online Monday by the journal Pediatrics.
The study involved 565 Seattle parents, who periodically filled out TV-watching diaries and questionnaires measuring their child's behavior.
Half were coached for six months on getting their 3-to-5-year-old kids to watch shows like "Sesame Street" and "Dora the Explorer" rather than more violent programs like "Power Rangers." The results were compared with kids whose parents who got advice on healthy eating instead.
At six months, children in both groups showed improved behavior, but there was a little bit more improvement in the group that was coached on their TV watching.
By one year, there was no meaningful difference between the two groups overall. Low-income boys appeared to get the most short-term benefit.
"That's important because they are at the greatest risk, both for being perpetrators of aggression in real life, but also being victims of aggression," Christakis said.
The study has some flaws. The parents weren't told the purpose of the study, but the authors concede they probably figured it out and that might have affected the results.
Before the study, the children averaged about 1 1/2 hours of TV, video and computer game watching a day, with violent content making up about a quarter of that time. By the end of the study, that increased by up to 10 minutes. Those in the TV coaching group increased their time with positive shows; the healthy eating group watched more violent TV.
Nancy Jensen, who took part with her now 6-year-old daughter, said the study was a wake-up call.
"I didn't realize how much Elizabeth was watching and how much she was watching on her own," she said.
Jensen said her daughter's behavior improved after making changes, and she continues to control what Elizabeth and her 2-year-old brother, Joe, watch. She also decided to replace most of Elizabeth's TV time with games, art and outdoor fun.
During a recent visit to their Seattle home, the children seemed more interested in playing with blocks and running around outside than watching TV.
Another researcher who was not involved in this study but also focuses his work on kids and television commended Christakis for taking a look at the influence of positive TV programs, instead of focusing on the impact of violent TV.
"I think it's fabulous that people are looking on the positive side. Because no one's going to stop watching TV, we have to have viable alternatives for kids," said Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston.
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Don't Go Cheap: You remember the old adage "You get what you pay for"? Yeah, that still hold true even in the service industry. There pricing may be the cheapest out there, but what about the quality? There's water ALL over your WOOD floor, do you want to take a chance that the cheapest guy out there got all the water evaporated with their rapid structural drying?
Personal Reviews: Check out those online reviews but MORE importantly, perform some online research on your local water damage restoration companies. Do they seem like they actually care if your home is correctly mitigated of water or mold? Or are they just looking for a quick sale instead of a long term, quality relationship with the local community. Just because a company has 200 reviews doesn't make them the best. It just makes them heavily reviewed. Best to check out their BBB rating, if they're even accredited!
The People: This is the real deal breaker. Give them a call. Talk to one of the staff; see firsthand how experienced and friendly they are. If they don't sound experienced, do you really want them working on your HOME? How about their demeanor? Are you sure the unhappy, sour technician who hates is job is really going to care how your home reconstruction, water loss or mold remediation job fairs in the end? If I take pride in my work and love my job, it's going to reflect when I speak with people.
Any catastrophic damage to a home requiring renovation is a stressful and arduous process. Take the time to research the best home restoration and remodeling companies in the local community. The end result generated from choosing a quality home damage repair company will certainly guarantee positive results as well as peace of mind.
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Brad Keselowski gets The Captain his Cup title
HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Brad Keselowski, loud, a little buzzed and soaked in beer, bounded through the door with an oversized bottle of champagne in one hand and his cellphone in the other. He plopped down next to Roger Penske, a pillar of the American auto industry, and triumphantly slapped him on the back.
"We did it boss," Keselowski hailed.
"Did you bring your tweeter?" the 75-year-old Penske replied.
NASCAR's oddest couple captured its biggest prize Sunday night, when Keselowski brought Penske his first Sprint Cup championship 40 years after the owner's first stock car race. He beat five-time champion Jimmie Johnson of mighty Hendrick Motorsports while delivering the crown that fills a glaring hole on Penske's otherwise sterling racing resume.
Penske is considered the gold standard of open-wheel racing - he has 15 Indianapolis 500 wins - and his empire makes him one of the most successful businessmen in America. But until Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway, his NASCAR program was never more than average.
"Personally, I feel amazing that I've been able to achieve this in racing," Penske said. "I think it took guts for me to stay in the sport. We could have thought, 'Well, we won the Indy 500 15 times and we're a big deal.' But I'll tell you one thing ... I think I just woke up here tonight, and it's a big thrill."
As always, Penske credited his entire organization.
But the program really turned behind Keselowski, you know, the kid you first heard about when he tweeted from inside his car during the season-opening Daytona 500 earlier this year. So it was fitting that his first act as champion was sending a tweet, of course, from inside his car. "We did it," he posted with a picture.
Then the party really began.
The blue collar, Twitter-loving, Michigan native chugged sponsor Miller Lite's product, donned goggles to douse the Blue Deuce crew with champagne, and imagined how his life will change as NASCAR's champion. At 28, he's the eighth youngest champion in NASCAR history and proud he doesn't have a date for the Nov. 30 champions banquet in Las Vegas.
"I've always wanted to date a celebrity," Keselowski said, "I'm just throwing that out there. That would be really cool, don't you think?"
Penske could only shake his head in bewilderment.
"Maybe I am conservative, but I like to have a little fun, too," Penske said. "And I think when you've won the NASCAR championship, the driver, you can kind of give him a little wider path, and he's certainly taken it side to side. I think it's all good."
Keselowski might not have seemed like Penske material three years ago, but he's a cornerstone now.
He was a developmental driver for Hendrick Motorsports in 2008 when he went to see Penske, convinced he could be the driver to bring "The Captain" a coveted Cup championship. He wiggled free from his contract a year later, and had a second-tier Nationwide championship - and a closet full of starched white Penske shirts - to show for his convictions.
Now, three years into the partnership, he and Penske have that Cup championship and a connection no one saw coming.
"Always, throughout my whole life I've been told I'm not big enough, not fast enough, not strong enough and I don't have what it takes," Keselowski said from the championship stage. "I've used that as a chip on my shoulder to carry me through my whole career. It took until this year for me to realize that that was right, man, they were right.
"I'm not big enough, fast enough, strong enough. No person is. Only a team can do that."
Keselowski needed 125 starts to win his first championship, the fewest starts since four-time champion Jeff Gordon won his first title in 93 starts in 1995. Keselowski also won a second-tier Nationwide title in 2010, his first season with Penske and the owner's first official NASCAR championship.
Gordon, who avoided suspension this week but was fined $100,000 by NASCAR for intentionally wrecking Clint Bowyer last week at Phoenix, overcame the controversy to win the race in a 20th anniversary celebration for sponsor Dupont and Hendrick Motorsports.
It was Gordon's first victory at Homestead, which leaves Kentucky as the only active NASCAR track where he's yet to win.
Who did Gordon beat? Bowyer, of course.
And Bowyer's second-place finish moved him to a career-best second in the final standings. Third-place went to Ryan Newman, who got his break in NASCAR with Penske and spent seven seasons driving for the owner.
"He deserves this probably as much as anybody else, if not more because of what he's done for motor racing in general, NASCAR, his dedication to all forms of race cars is probably more than anybody else in the history of auto racing," Newman said. "I know this is probably one of the sweetest moments in his racing career."
Keselowski started the race up 20 points on Johnson, who blew a tire and crashed last week at Phoenix to give Keselowski a nice cushion. He needed to finish 15th or higher in the finale to wrap up his first championship. But the Penske team took nothing for granted - not after Will Power crashed in the IndyCar finale to blow a 17-point lead and lose the championship.
And this one got tight, too, especially when Keselowski ran out of gas on pit road during green flag pit stops. It put him a lap down with Johnson leading, and Keselowski and crew chief Paul Wolfe frantically tried to figure out how dire the situation had become.
Wolfe crunched the numbers, figuring the No. 2 Dodge would cycle out in the mid-20s, a lap down from the leaders.
"I know the scenario, and it's not good," Keselowski said.
But minutes later, Johnson went to pit road for his own stop and pulled away with a missing lug nut. NASCAR flagged the Hendrick Motorsports team and Johnson was forced back to pit road for another stop.
The Penske team was unsure if Keselowski wanted to know what was going on with Johnson.
"I've got a big picture story if you want to hear it," a team member radioed, then informed Keselowski that Johnson had to pit again.
"Ten-four. Thank you for telling me. We're back in the game. I got it," he said.
It got worse for Johnson from there. He broke a rear end gear in his Chevrolet and went to the garage with 40 laps to go, essentially clinching the championship for Keselowski.
"It all unraveled pretty quick," Johnson conceded.
No longer needing to save fuel, and no longer needing to play it conservatively, he waived off Wolfe's playbook.
"If he's in the garage, let's race," Keselowski said.
That's been Keselowski's attitude since he burst onto the NASCAR scene. He first caught attention as a brash driver for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Nationwide Series team, and he was unapologetic for his aggressive driving and his refusal to back down in long-running feuds with established stars Denny Hamlin and Carl Edwards.
But he's been calmer and focused since joining Penske in 2009. Still, his fame had been largely for the Daytona 500 tweeting.
NASCAR loved the attention it received, but quietly admonished him later for having a phone in his car, which is banned because it can manipulate electronic fuel injection systems. So when he tweeted again last week under red at Phoenix, NASCAR fined him $25,000 - which angered fans who felt a mixed message had been sent.
But Keselowski, who was tweeting into the early morning hours Sunday, handed his phone over with no resistance right before he climbed into the car at Homestead.
The win is the first for Dodge since Richard Petty's Cup title in 1975, and comes as the manufacturer is leaving NASCAR. Penske announced days after the Daytona 500 it will move to Ford next year, and it led to Dodge's decision to pull out of NASCAR.
"Not one failure all year long in that Dodge engine, so I want to thank Dodge for what they've done for us," Penske said after Keselowski secured the title.


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Ratings: Big Bang Hits Record Highs
The Big Bang Theory kicked off 2013 with a huge, well, bang.
The CBS sitcom hit a viewership series high, drawing 19 million viewers Thursday, and matched a series high in the 18-to-49 demographic with a 6.0 rating.
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That boosted Two and a Half Men (15.4 million, 4.6) to season highs and Person of Interest (16.1 million, 3.4) to series highs in both measures. Elementary (11.4 million, 2.5) posted its best numbers since its series premiere.
Fox was the only other network to air original programming, with another Mobbed double-header that averaged 2.9 million viewers and a 1.1.
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CAROLYN ARNOLD is an international best-selling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series—Detective Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher FBI, McKinley Mysteries, and Matthew Connor Adventures—and has written nearly thirty books. Her genre diversity offers her readers everything from cozy to hard-boiled mysteries, and thrillers to action adventures.
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